The economy was recovering in 2010 before the election.

You can read about it with a few clicks if you want. Then along came Osborne and austerity. That coalition government has done more to divide the country than pretty much anything before or since. Not political, just history.

Posted By: APB on September 3rd 2019 at 21:24:01

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Go Corbyn! (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 19:12:03
- Corbyn as PM (General Chat) - ingi, Sep 3, 19:17:28
  - I would leave the country (n/m) (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Sep 3, 20:13:18
    - Take your crooked mates with you. (n/m) (General Chat) - FreshBlood, Sep 3, 21:31:28
    - yet another reason to vote him in (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:13:10
    - I said that about Boris and no deal. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Sep 3, 20:56:35
    - I’m no fan but I’d have Corbin any day rather than Johnson (n/m) (General Chat) - Chopper, Sep 3, 20:38:09
  - I’d rather see a coalition including the Libs and Green Party (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 19:46:11
    - with whom? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 20:16:49
      - That was a while back. All non tories can make a coalition (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:16:36
        
        obviously, they could, but would they? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:19:16
  - Why? How? (General Chat) - grays, Sep 3, 19:39:15
  - What he said earlier about no deal was very sensible though. (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 19:37:00
  - like I say, just compare the two (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 19:21:07
    - Or you invest in shorting the economy (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 19:38:54
- just compare this measured sense and logic compared to Johnson's shouting and gesticulatin (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 19:15:19
  - i dont think many support the current shitfest of government (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 3, 19:20:48
    - The same old shit they used to say about Nye Bevan, the father of the NHS (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 19:22:06
      - did they (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 3, 19:26:26
        
        as it was in the 1970s - nearly 50 years ago. (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 19:28:58
        
        Imagine if the last Labour govt left us in the shit (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:01:05
        
        The money’s all gone note was a joke. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 3, 21:20:43
        
        Upshot is we lurch from skimp to spend (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:32:50
        
        Tories and Lib Dems 4 years (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:43:51
        
        Tories have had ages. Now they want to totally screw the economy for MANY years to come (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:34:54
        
        vmt ^^ (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:23:19
        
        This time the chancellor will have to leave a note saying we’ve fucked the economy (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:32:10
        
        Brexit will be 4 times worse for the UK economy than the financial crash of 2007 (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:15:00
        
        10% utter rubbish. Immediate short term drop (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:25:21
        
        Wow. Short term drop, long term benefits. What happens in between and when will the (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:32:52
        
        I think you've hammered home your point now (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:44:18
        
        Apologies for having a different viewpoint (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:48:53
        
        we appear to be mostly agreeing, but you seem to be responding to yourself mostly (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:52:07
        
        Usually on my Mac but on phone tonight so different layout (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:58:38
        
        believe me, we largely agree (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 22:15:04
        
        The economy was recovering in 2010 before the election. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 3, 21:24:01
        
        But Labour always get slagged off for poor running of the economy (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:34:05
        
        they aren't all career opportunists, this is false (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:05:16
        
        A slightly ironic sweeping generalisation (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:16:56
        
        You are obviously correct as what you say is fact (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanary, Sep 3, 21:28:55
        
        I'm glad we could agree (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:38:08
        
        and a true one in this case (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 21:22:16
        
        Same as Lib Dems, SNP, Green Party etc (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 21:15:35
        
        when a shadow chancellor (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 3, 19:31:33
        
        depends what price that is, but a) that's highly unlikely to happen (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 19:35:29
        
        their will be a huge uproar at any price (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 3, 19:38:50
        
        it'd never happen so not worth arguing the toss about anyway (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Sep 3, 19:47:17
  - It's not this government that I support ffs. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 3, 19:17:11
- “The height of economic lunacy” ⬅️⬅️ Brexit (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 3, 19:14:30

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